Video Clip: The Wild Quaker Parrots of Edgewater, New Jersey

Our film crew (consisting of one middle-aged human and three well-trained Quaker Parrots) was active over the weekend. On Saturday, we were in New Jersey, and were graced with cold but beautiful weather that let us shoot many elements which will be included in our forthcoming Wild Feral Parrot Epic. The resultant clip runs just under 5 minutes: it includes:

1. Views of several types of wild Quaker Parrot nests seen in New Jersey.
2. Views of the Quaker Parrots, conversing, flocking, and catching the winter sun.
3. Assorted winter snuggling (it was COLD on Saturday!)
4. Classic scenes of the Quaker Parrots fighting each other (you thought the Brooklyn Parrots were pugnacious: the Jersey Parrots are ferocious!)
5. A scene in which the Quaker Parrots' feeding is interrupted by a warning siren.
6. Close-ups of Quaker Parrots performing construction tasks.
7. Quaker Parrots eating snow, a wintertime delicacy which must be one of the true pleasures of any charismatic avian Argentinian expatriate living in the Northeast.

The arrival of wild parrots in Brooklyn is fairly well documented. But the appearance of parrots in the Garden State is highly mysterious. Did they fly from a barge? Break out of the Sea-Land Terminal located near the Lincoln Tunnel? Or bust out of a crate at Newark Airport, stopover at a cemetery in Hoboken and move to Edgewater in the 1990's? Everybody in Jersey seems to have a theory, and someday the truth may out.

Enjoy the incredible wild Quaker Parrots of Edgewater: these hardy urban parrots have made Edgewater a must-see place for anyone interested in wild parrot conservation today! (This clip, like just about every clip we upload, will be making its way into the forthcoming Brooklyn Parrots documentary film).